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Stand-up comedian and popular film and television actor Cedric "The Entertainer" has been named the new host of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire," joining the long-running game show beginning with its 12th season in national syndication this fall.
"We are thrilled to announce that Cedric 'The Entertainer' will be at the helm as our new host of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire,'" said Janice Marinelli, president, Disney-ABC Domestic Television. "With his deep roots as a successful stand-up comedian and actor, Cedric will bring his fresh approach and unpredictable fun to the show."
"Cedric 'The Entertainer' is the perfect person to take the 'Millionaire' franchise to the next level," added Vicki Dummer, executive vice president, Times Square Studios. "An immensely talented performer with widespread appeal, Cedric will no doubt infuse his gregarious personality and humor into the show."
"I'm truly looking forward to hosting 'Millionaire,'" Cedric stated. "The show is a modern day game show giant, and the team at Disney-ABC has been great at putting the right elements together over 11 seasons. I'm excited to entertain all those who watch and play as season 12 launches. ... It's going to be a good time every day!
Cedric replaces Meredith Vieira, who launched the weekday version of the game show in 2002 and remained host for 11 seasons, through 2013.
Cedric The Entertainer is perhaps most widely known for his work on the record-breaking "Kings of Comedy" tour with Steve Harvey, the late Bernie Mac, and D.L. Hughley. The highly successful tour led to the hit film "The Original Kings of Comedy," which was directed by Spike Lee. Other film credits include "Barbershop" (2002), "Ice Age" (2002), "Intolerable Cruelty" (2003), "Johnson Family Vacation" (2004), "Madagascar" (2005), "Be Cool" (2005), "Charlotte's Web" (2006), "Talk to Me" (2007), "Street Kings" (2008), "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" (2008), "Larry Crowne" (2011), "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted" (2012), and the current comedy-horror spoof, "A Haunted House" (2013), among others.
Currently, Cedric can be seen in the TV Land sitcom, which he co-created, titled "The Soul Man," starring as Rev. Boyce "The Voice" Ballentine, a spin-off character that originated from a guest appearance on "Hot In Cleveland."


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As the higher-seeded team, and playing at home, the Drake High boys basketball team entered its NorCal Division III playoff opener against Santa Cruz with the favorite's label. But when Santa Cruz freshman Kaijae Yee-Stephens dropped in a 3-pointer two seconds before halftime, the Pirates went to their locker room with just a one-point lead and knowledge that they were not facing a pushover Wednesday.
Drake came out of the locker room a changed team.
With an improved defensive effort and more determination to get the ball to their big men — Drake (25-6) had a solid size advantage on the 12th-seeded Cardinals — the No. 5 Pirates responded with a better effort after intermission to produce a 71-50 victory.
"Our halftime speech from coach (Doug) Donnellan was pretty much just pumping us up and telling us to be more physical, play more aggressive, finish at the rim every time," Drake senior forward Brandon Kenilvort said. "I think we did. In the second half, we were able to change our game a little bit."
Kenilvort was the big beneficiary of the Pirates' renewed determination, pumping in 17 of his game-high 28 points in the second half. His work helped Drake pull away from the Cardinals, with the Pirates' 18-5 third-quarter run largely settling matters.
"I thought their big guys did a great job," said Santa Cruz coach Patrick Jones, acknowledging the work of Drake center Liam Hunt (12 points, 12 rebounds) in addition to Kenilvort's play. "We just got killed on the offensive glass and they had way too many second-chance opportunities. We hung on in the first half and made the most of it, but if you keep doing that it's going to catch up to you and that's kind of what happened in the third quarter."
In addition to running its offense more precisely in the second half, Drake also stepped up its defense. Santa Cruz (19-12) was limited to 2-for-10 shooting in the third quarter and was 3 for 12 from the floor in the fourth quarter.
"I wasn't very positive with them at halftime," Donnellan said. "I just kind of reminded them how they'll feel if they lose this game to a team that we think we're better than because of our poor effort. They came out and did what they had to do in the second half. You know, Brandon was a beast inside, we picked up our defensive intensity in the third quarter."
The game really seemed to turn in Drake's favor in a 26-second span of the third period. With Drake leading 35-31, neither team scored over a span of about 1 minute, 30 seconds. Then, Lucas Chavez, who struggled with his outside shot, hit a short jumper to extend the Pirates' lead to six points. On Drake's next possession, he scored on an offensive rebound the Pirates were on their way to a 14-point cushion by quarter's end.
"I think those were off turnovers and that's how our offense starts," Chavez said. "When we brought the intensity up, we forced some turnovers and that's how we got some fast break baskets."
Drake let up a bit defensively in the fourth quarter as Santa Cruz scored 16 points, with Kiree Hutchings scoring 10 of his 18 points in the period, but the Pirates also tossed in 23 to keep the Cardinals at bay.
As a reward for their victory, Drake will host No. 13 Shasta (16-12) on Saturday in the NorCal quarterfinals after Shasta beat No. 4 Sierra on Wednesday.
"We have to come out smarter," Hunt said. "We play a team like Shasta or El Cerrito and all those type teams and they'll pounce on us. We've got to pick it up Saturday."
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Mapping VO's from Flex to PHP using AMFPHP
I sometimes wonder why it is that I never seem to blog till shortly after the midnight hour... oh well... life just gets too crazy when the sun is up. So as it happens, one of my minions spent the better part of today putting together php classes, using a nifty code generator found called DAO Generator by the guys over at Titantic Linux. It seems to do a pretty decent job of generating the sql necessary to create the db table, and then builds three additional files, the VO, a datasource file, and then finally a DAO file that has a ton of functions in it. (and I mean a ton!)
Going to take a moment here to give credit where credit is due... Michael Ramirez's tutorial on Using Amfphp 1.9 with the Adobe Flex 2 SDK is what really got us started in the right direction, it's pretty detailed and yet easy to follow. We quickly were able to get our AMFPHP up and running with the tutorial files as outlined by Michael. Tickled pink by the code generator we figured we could easily start building our own php gateway. But enough background... on to the thick of things.
Passing VO's from PHP seems to be very well covered in numerous articles on the web, and it involves mainly adding a var $_explicitType="tutorials.Person" to the php VO, with a value that corresponds to the [RemoteClass(alias="tutorials.Person")] in the Flex VO. Pretty straightforward and foolproof. But no one seems to spend any time talking about going back the other way.
Generally when a VO is passed from Flex to AMFPHP, it is treated as an Associative Array. In Michael's examples, he treats the ValueObject that is passed back to Save function as just that $valueObject["lastName"]. But we were pretty keen on using the generated code, which actually uses the syntax $valueObject->getLastName(). And this of course, failed, because the $valueObject being passed to PHP from Flex was not in fact being mapped back to the right VO, or any php VO for that matter.
Turns out, after much googling, that only under certain conditions will AMFPHP successfully map an incoming Flex VO to the corresponding PHP VO. In the globals.php, found at the root of the AMFPHP folder structure, you'll find the following line:
$voPath = "services/vo/";
Meanwhile we had been placing our VO in the same folder as our Datasource and DAO files, something like com/crazedCoders/testapp, and this was off the services/ folder, not the services/vo folder. In fact we didn't even have a /vo folder. I found this little tidbit of information: "As for incoming class mapping, remember that if amfphp doesn't find the class to be mapped in the services/vo folder, it will simply deserialize the object as though it were untyped, that is, as an associative array. " in this blog.
It took a little bit of playing around but ultimately, without making any changes to the core AMFPHP files, I was able to get the reverse mapping working successfully. This is what that looked like:
//file: src/tutorials/Person.asand then in php:
package tutorials{
public class Person {
public var firstName:String;
public var lastName:String;
public var phone:String;
public var email:String;
<?phpTo test the mapping I added the following function to a PersonService.php file:
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class Person {
var $firstName;
var $lastName;
var $phone;
var $email;
// explicit actionscript package
var $_explicitType = "tutorials.Person";}
function formatLastName(){
$lastName = strtolower($lastName); }
//file: services/tutorials/PersonService.phpOnly if the valueobject was mapped correctly would it be able to call the function on the PHP VO. In Flex I just created a Person object, passed it in to the remoteobject call, and observed the formatting of the last name on the Person object that was returned.
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return $person;
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Doris Jeanne Bell, 83, of Mount Pleasant, Texas died Saturday March 24th in Mount Pleasant. Graveside services will be 11:00 am Friday, March 30th at Westlawn Cemetery with Mr. Richard Kasko of Fritch Church of Christ officiating. Burial will be in the garden of Love at Westlawn Cemetery under the direction of Minton Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.Doris was born March 10, 1929 at Conway, Texas to Gains Oliver Pruitt and Alta McWhirter Pruitt. She grew up in Panhandle, where she graduated from Panhandle High School in 1946 She married Billy Clyde Bell Dec. 15, 1945 in Amarillo and raised her sons in Electric City, North of Borger. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and a son Mike, two brothers and one sisterShe is survived by a son Gary Bell and wife Terry of Mount Pleasant, Texas. Five granddaughters Amber Petit of Athens, rystal Hughes of Greenville, Courtney Starns of Mckinney, Natalie Sherman of Haltom City and Karen Bell of Arlington. A sister Mozelle Urbanczyk of Panhandle. Brother Merl Pruitt of North Richland Hills. Ten Great grandchildren. She will also be rembered lovingly by her many nieces and nephews.


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Do your souvenirs reflect who you are? Courier-Post columnist Danny Henley believes they are.
It's interesting to see what people bring home from a vacation, whether they find it free along a beach or tax their credit card buying it.
During last month's family excursion, my 17-year-old daughter, Anna, enjoyed buying new items of clothing for herself at one of the countless stores in Gulf Shores, Ala. When she took my wife, Nancy, and I back to shop some more, the landmark we were told to look for was a large shark outside the store.
While the items of clothing Anna bought for herself, Nancy and I did agree to buy our daughter a remembrance. And despite the fact she already has multiple pairs of sunglasses, that is what she wanted.
It must be noted that while I've set no speed records when it came to picking out a pair of sunglasses, I am faster than my youngest daughter.
"Which pair do you think I look best in?" asked Anna.
It's a trick question that females love asking males because invariably whichever one the guy chooses invariably goes to the end of her preference line.
"I think they all look great on you," I replied in an attempt to show it was not my first "what looks good on me" rodeo.
Ultimately, Anna chose a pair of sunglasses with reflective lenses and bright yellow wire frames.
Normally Nancy's souvenir is a T-shirt promoting wherever we went on vacation. That's why you may see her in T-shirts that promote South Carolina in general and Myrtle Beach in particular.
This year, however, she didn't buy a single Gulf Shores shirt. Instead, Nancy and her sister, Gloria, found an outlet mall with a shop that had items featuring the color, style and fabric that Nancy likes.
"See my 'souvenirs,'" said my bride with a smile as she presented an impromptu fashion show.
All the items she purchased can be worn for work. And considering Nancy is not big on clothes shopping anyway, for her to find a handful of items she liked is noteworthy. Thank you Gloria.
As for me, I typically follow Nancy's lead and get a local, grossly overpriced T-shirt. I came close to doing the same thing again.
While Anna sorted through sunglasses and Nancy inspected necklaces at the "shark" store, I wandered through the aisles until I found the T-shirts. Aside from a T-shirt that promoted the "saltwater mafia," the other shirt I was drawn to featured the silhouette of a black dog holding a red bikini top in its mouth. Below the picture were the words "Good boy!" and "Gulf Shores, Ala."
Anna thought the shirt was hilarious and encouraged me to buy it. Even Nancy, the voice of conservatism in the Henley household, thought it was "cute" and gave no indication of using her veto power if I wanted to purchase it.
Ultimately, however, I walked out of the store without the T-shirt. Why? Because I perceive what people wear on their shirts as being a reflection of their personality. And while I liked the shirt, deep down inside I don't think it would have really conveyed the person I am.
When we climbed in our dirty, gray Buick for the long trip north at the end of our vacation, I didn't have a souvenir for which I'd paid anything. But that doesn't mean I came home from Alabama empty-handed.
My souvenirs consisted of a lot of great memories from my in-laws 60th anniversary celebration and of walking hand in hand on the beach with Nancy, a few extra pounds following a week of wonderful food, a hundred or more mosquito bites secured while on an early-evening photo shoot with my son, Jacob, a sunburned nose and enough photos to bore people with for weeks.


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Genie Milgrom's quest for her religious roots began with a mysterious box her maternal grandmother left her when she died. It ends, if one can call it an ending, with a book, a website, speaking engagements around the world and a scholar's depth of knowledge about Jews who were forced to convert, or pretended to convert, by the Spanish Inquisition.
First, the box. Milgrom, who was raised Catholic in a traditional Cuban household, had already converted to Judaism when her maternal abuela left her a well-worn hamsa, or charm-like "hand of God" trinket, and one gold earring with a Star of David in the middle. No note accompanied this strange bequest.
Milgrom was intrigued. What did it mean? This, after all, was the grandmother who, upon Milgrom's conversion, had whispered a warning about the dangers of being a Jew.
"It was all very mysterious," said Milgrom, 58, president of her family's Miami-based pharmaceutical export company. "Then I started remembering all the strange family customs we had, like throwing some of the dough used for baking into the back of the oven and sweeping the floor towards the center of the room and even how we would cracks eggs in a glass to check for blood."
All Sephardic traditions. All customs practiced by Crypto Jews, those who secretly maintained their Jewish customs while pretending to be Catholic.
Curiosity piqued, Milgrom launched what would become an almost two-decade search for her Jewish roots, a search that took her to her ancestors' hometown of Fermoselle, a village in the province of Zamora on the Spanish-Portuguese border, as well as to a top Crypto Jewish historian in New Mexico, the head Sephardic rabbi in the U.S. and a rabbinical court in Israel.
The tangible result: My 15 Grandmothers, a 158-page self-published book that recounts her odyssey through history. It often reads like a true-life Da Vinci Code, complete with underground prayer rooms and enough cinematic twists to give Dan Brown a run for his money.
"It became like a dissertation," Milgrom said, "but a lot more personal. I was doing this for me, for my children, for my ancestors, for everything they had gone through."
Milgrom not only traced her genealogy 15 generations through her maternal line, but after writing the book, continued burrowing backward, past the years of the Inquisition and 1492, when the Jews were expelled from Spain. She has now tracked 22 generations of her mother's maternal line and unearthed centuries-old documents about both her family and Fermoselle as a Jewish settlement.
Abraham Lavender, a Florida International University professor of sociology and Judaic studies, said there has been increased awareness among Hispanic families about possible Jewish ancestry, but few people devote the time and energy to dig for so long and so far.
"She is much more into it than most people," Lavender said. "Most people go back just a few generations."
Milgrom, a mosaic artist whose work hangs throughout her spacious Kendall home, laughs when asked about her persistence.
"I'm obsessed, 100 percent obsessed. Seriously, though, I wanted to be the voice my grandmothers never had. I wanted to tell people, 'Here we still are.' "
As a result of her "second career," as Milgrom calls her genealogical studies, she has become an expert on Crypto Jews and the byzantine process of tracking a family tree through the centuries. She is president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami, the executive vice president of the Society of Crypto Judaic Studies based in Colorado Springs and the president of Tarbut Sefarad Fermoselle in Barcelona, an organization that disseminates information on cultural findings of Crypto Jewry. She also has published in scholarly journals.
"Generally we don't publish personal searches," said Lavender, who edits the Journal of Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian Crypto Jews.( cryptojewsjournal.org) "But Genie's research is so unique and so comprehensive and well documented that it's certainly at an academic level."
Milgrom's experience has morphed into a crusade to help others who are looking for their religious roots. She is now writing a guide book about researching genealogy in Spain. Her own work can serve as a template for others, she believes.
"I don't proselytize, I don't go looking for it," Milgrom said, "but people find me. They hear about my story. I feel I've become an advocate for those who want to do what I'm doing."
One of those is Gustavo Ramirez Calderon, an industrial engineer from San Jose, Costa Rica, who has been researching his family for more than three decades. He refers to Milgrom as his mentor.
"The first 34 years, I was just going in circles," Ramirez wrote in Spanish in an email, "and it wasn't until I met Genie Milgrom and read her book ... that I got anywhere. I advanced more in eight months than I did in all the other years."
In conjunction with the Jewish Genealogical Society, Milgrom will be one of the presenters for "Our Jewish Heritage: A Genealogical Journey" at the Jewish Museum of Florida on Jan. 19.
She had converted to Orthodox Judaism before meeting her husband, Michael Milgrom, who comes from a family of Belgian Jews. No one else in her family, including her parents, an older sister and her two children from her first marriage, has embraced the ancestral faith.
Though she attended Catholic schools all her life, Milgrom recalls always feeling an affinity for Judaism. As an adult, she began reading about the religion extensively, visiting various synagogues before venturing into an Orthodox shul. Twenty-five years later, she is still at Young Israel of Kendall and serves on its board.
She jokes easily about the long conversion process, peppering her conversation with Cuban idioms. "I took one shellfish out of my diet every three or four months. That was hard! Can you imagine taking away camaron?" she said, using the Spanish word for shrimp.
Milgrom and her husband keep kosher. They walk to shul. And when she lights candles every Friday night, "I feel all my grandmothers are standing around me and they're saying, 'Good job.' I'm glad they're here for me."


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I often am working with a file and need to copy it's full absolute path. In the past, I always used pwd to grab the path, then typed a slash then ls'd the file name and copied that. I just stumbled across the realpath command which allows you to do this all in one step for quick copying/pasting of the absolute path.
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The Japan Meteorological Agency said the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 and struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Miyagi prefecture at 5:18 p.m. (0318 Eastern). The epicenter was 6.2 miles beneath the seabed.
After the quake, which caused buildings in Tokyo to sway for at least several minutes, authorities issued a warning that a tsunami potentially as high as 2.19 yards could hit. Ishinomaki, a city in Miyagi, reported that a tsunami of 1 yard hit at 6:02 p.m. (0402 Eastern).
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Miyagi prefectural police said there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the quake or tsunami, although traffic was being stopped in some places to check on roads.
Shortly before the earthquake struck, NHK television broke off regular programming to warn that a strong quake was due to hit. Afterward, the announcer repeatedly urged all near the coast to flee to higher ground.
Adam Ezard, a British expat living in Tokyo, tells CBSNews.com that Japanese media responded much more aggressively to the Friday quake than they had done in the past, with virtually all channels breaking into their regular programming, and NHK even giving information in multiple languages for the first time.
The response is an indication of how deeply the 2011 disaster affected the densely-populated island nation's psyche.
The magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that slammed into northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011, killed or left missing some 19,000 people, devastating much of the coast. All but two of Japan's nuclear plants were shut down for checks after the earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in the worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Immediately following Friday's quake, there were no problems at any of the nuclear plants operated by Fukushima Dai-Ichi operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., said a TEPCO spokesman, Takeo Iwamoto.


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As anyone who has followed my posts is painfully aware, I am a big advocate of creating and controlling the light which is responsible for making our photographs, both in the studio and out in the wilderness.
It has always worked better for me than jerking around with the development to attempt to compensate for random crummy lighting.
Electronic flash is possible to use in some outdoor situations. But flash bulbs are superior in some ways. Since they have a much longer duration, flash bulbs have the effective light output of very expensive and prohibitively heavy studio electronic flash packs.
Apparently, spelunkers use flash bulbs all the time to illuminate cave photography. The technique is to open all shutters in total darkness, then fire off an enormous bare bulb in the middle of the cavern.
JandC is selling old flash bulbs for a while until the supply runs out. Because of age, not all will actually fire (I know the feeling). And I believe I read somewhere that someone, I think in Ireland, was still manufacturing them (?).
But I was thinking just the other day of a tv commercial I worked on (part of the crew) many moons ago, which featured an old-time still photographer using flash powder.
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Jude Law is all smiles while walking around Primrose Hill on Friday (February 4) in London, England.
The 38-year-old British actor ran some errands with his assistant Ben Jackson and stopped to chat and give a hug to an older man.
In addition to filming the Sherlock Holmes sequel, Jude will be lending his voice for the upcoming animated flick Rise of the Guardians.
The all-star cast also includes Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, and Isla Fisher.
The movie, expected to hit theaters November 2012, is based on the children's book series The Guardians of Childhood.


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You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge a coffee without even tasting it first? Not always, but surely it's possible sometimes. Here are some visual clues to help you tell the good from the bad and the ugly.
In the photo above, we see the difference between a well-made cappuccino topped with silky microfoam and, frankly, the kind of crappuccino you'll find brought out by servers at some of the finest restaurants all over the world: A dense chaos of dry foam plopped atop a badly pulled shot of weak espresso. The difference is more than just visual, though the sight alone tells you something about the taste.
While the coffee on the left will have a balance of milk and espresso flavor (a little bit of both with every sip) to complement its velvety texture, the other one will lack sweetness thanks to the overcooked milk foam, and the drinker will have to slurp through all that heavy fluff in order to reach the coffee flavor—such as it is—underneath.
Is there anything you can do to save such a sad capp? Unfortunately not much, save perhaps a vigorous stir to mix the coffee and froth, and a bit of sugar to make up for the natural sweetness that won't come through in that disastrous dairy. (And maybe stick to drip coffee next time.)
Oh, dear. Espresso is tricky, because even the good looking shots can sometimes taste pretty bad. It's very hard to truly judge a cup by appearance alone. But there are some clues that might lead you in a general direction—which, in some cases, might be toward the exit.
The easiest way to snap-judge a coffee is to check the color and elasticity of the crema. In the photo above, you can see how washed out and pale the top of the left shot looks, as opposed to the darker, more viscous head of foam on top of the right one. The former might mean that the shot sat long enough for the crema to almost completely dissipate (maybe five minutes or so), or that the barista used too coarse a grind or far too much brew water. In any event, the result will most likely be a bitter, thin shot lacking any sweetness or character.
The best way to prevent winding up with an "espresso" like that watery swill above? Keep your eyes peeled: Checking out what other customers' drinks look like might prevent you wasting your hard-earned dough on a bit of brown caffeine water.
What other tips do you have for judging a book by its proverbial cover—or a shot by its crema?
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Homeopathic remedies have been safely and effectively used for over 200 years. In fact, homeopathy is the second most widely used health care system in the world (herbal medicine being first). Homeopathic remedies are safe and effective and can be used by groups that often have difficulty taking other medications, including infants, pregnant women, and - of particular interest to friends of VPO - animals.
The information on the remedy label (in the case of belladonna, "fever") represents a common symptom that is just a tiny part of the complete symptom picture associated with the particular remedy. Correct homeopathic prescribing is achieved only after looking at the totality of symptoms presented (physical, mental, emotional) as well as the materia medica – reference books that contain the records of all symptoms produced by the individual remedies during the proving process. We highly recommend finding and working with a homeopathic veterinarian if you are interested in seeing how this gentle, effective medicine can be of benefit to your animal(s). Use the link to visit the home page of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association, where general information on this topic can be found, as well as a listing of veterinary practitioners. (Don't worry if there is not a homeopathic vet geographically close to you; long distance treatment by phone works extremely well.) Further information on homeopathy can be obtained through the National Center for Homeopathy.
2 dram bottle; choose 30C or 200C potency. [Wondering what a dram is? A dram is an apothecary unit of measurement. One dram is equal to 1/8 oz. These single remedies are 2 dram size bottles, or 1/4 oz.]
More about homeopathy:
Homeopathy (from the Greek homeo, meaning similar, and pathos, meaning disease or suffering) is based on the principle "like cures like." In practice, this simply means that the homeopathic remedy selected to treat particular symptoms would be the remedy made from minute amounts of a substance that would give those symptoms to a healthy individual. For example, a person suffering with a cold, whose symptoms included burning, copiously watering eyes and a runny nose, might find it beneficial to take the homeopathic remedy allium cepa, which is made from red onion. By contrast, allopathic medicine (from the Greek allos, meaning other or different) might treat such symptoms with a substance that produces the opposite effect from the symptom being experienced – in the above case, an antihistamine for its drying effect, for example.
Homeopathic remedies are made from all sorts of plant, animal and mineral substances. The original base substance is soaked for a long time to produce a "mother tincture" that becomes the base from which remedies of different potencies (strengths) are made. Between every dilution stage (homeopathic remedies are incredibly dilute), the remedies are "potentized" by being succussed (shaken vigorously). It is not known for certain what this potentization does to the remedies, but what is known is that without potentization along with successive dilution, the remedies are not active.
Just how dilute are the remedies? Remedies labeled as "X" (decimal) potencies (6X, 12X, etc.) are based on 1 part solution to 9 parts alcohol or water (10 parts in all); "C", or centesimal, potencies are based on 1 part solution to 99 parts alcohol or water (100 parts in all). One part of the mother tincture to 99 parts alcohol or water results in a 1C potency (assuming potentization has occurred). If you then take one part of that 1C solution to 99 parts alcohol or water, and succuss it, you have a 2C potency. Taking one part of that 2C solution to 99 parts alcohol or water, then potentizing it, yields a potency of 3C, and so on. Clearly, the amount of the original substance contained in most homeopathic remedies is infinitesimally small.
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Grateful Dead
Road Trips Vol. 2 No. 3: Wall Of Sound 1974 - SOLD OUT
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Celebrating the 35th anniversary of the spectacular Wall of Sound, we invite you on a sonic excursion into back-to-back shows from June of '74. Propelled by the heart-thumping power of the Wall, these shows capture the band during a period of heightened intensity and brilliant musicianship.
Disc one finds the Wall of Sound towering over the State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa for a Thursday, June 16th show that's loaded with beautifully inventive jams and inspired transitions. Amazing moments abound, like the 29-minute odyssey of "Playing In The Band" that blissfully dives into space and brings us back again. Disc two picks up two days later at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. This legendary setlist includes a brain-melting jam that rolls from "Weather Report Suite" through "It's A Sin."
Once again Jeffrey Norman has worked his magic on the soundboard masters so we can experience all this classic Dead in crisp-and-clear HDCD. The set also comes with an essay by Dennis McNally and of course photos of the band - and their mighty Wall of Sound.
CD 1: State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA 6/16/74
1. China Cat Sunflower>
2. I Know You Rider
3. The Race Is On
4. Eyes of the World>
5. Big River
6. U.S. Blues
7. Playing In The Band
CD 2: Freedom Hall, Louisville, KY 6/18/74
1. Loose Lucy
2. Eyes of the World>
3. China Doll
4. Weather Report Suite>
5. Jam>
6. Other One>
7. It's A Sin Jam>
8. Stella Blue
Looking for the bonus disc? Sorry, but we've run out of the bonus disc that was included with early orders. All orders will include the standard 2-CD version of this release.
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Show: Iowa and Kentucky, June 1974
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They were called F's, or covered wagons. For years they
pulled every style of train, from the Zephyr, to the Super Chief,
to merchandise and local freights. Newer, bigger, more powerful locomotives
made them obsolete. More than 7,600 were built by General Motors between
1939 and 1960. Of the thousands that were built, only a handful still exist
today. The others were traded-in or simply cut up for scrap.
The Southern Pacific Railroad owned over 770 of these
workhorses at one time. For roughly two decades these Black Widows
dominated the SP system and the Sierras.
The No.6378 and No.6380 are two late-model EMD F-7A locomotives built
for the Southern Pacific in July, 1952. The locomotives saw service over
the entire system, and still retain their classic snow plow pilots from
their days of battling the harsh winters in the Sierras.
The 28 units of class DF-8, numbered 6378-6405, were delivered in A-A sets
with no B-units. All were painted in the classic SP Black Widow freight scheme,
as they were purchased primarily for that service. The premier passenger trains
in 1953 were well in the hands of E- and PA-diesels, as well as the large stable
of GS 4-8-4 Daylight locomotives. The F's had proven they were superior
to the E-units in some applications, and as the steamers were retired, some F-units
were given 60:17 (79 MPH) gearing and placed in the passenger pool. These A-units
were built with boiler controls and steam lines, while the B-units of the class DF-4
(Nos.8086-8139) and DF-12 (Nos.8290-8303) carried the steam generator and water tanks.
These F-7A units were often found at the lead of the San Joaquin Daylight, Owl,
Californian, Argonaut, Klamath, system mail trains, and special movements like
troop trains.
This F-7 class was delivered with Nathan M-5 five-chime air horns, nose lifting-lugs,
and 1,500-gallon fuel tanks for extended range. The dynamic brake fans were enlarged
to 48-inches to dissipate 700 amperes, up from 600 amperes on the F-7's
equipped with 36-inch fans. Snowplow pilots were added by the Southern Pacific.
The SP Black Widow and Daylight paint schemes were time-consuming
to mask, as both used four different colors. During the 1958 recession, SP
experimented with some simplified two-color schemes. A Halloween paint scheme
of black and orange was tried on some units, but it was not acceptable. The SP-6378
is acknowledged as being the first Southern Pacific unit to be painted in the new
system-standard Lark Grey and Scarlet Red scheme in July 1958. F-7's Nos.6365,
6378, 6382 and several other units were originally lettered with the boxcar style
Gothic type face on the nose and flanks. It was then decided to return to the classic
SP Railroad Roman as the standard for locomotive lettering. All F-units in the
passenger pool were painted gray/red, but only about 20-percent of the freight
F-units were repainted, most going to scrap in their delivered colors.
The SP-6378 and SP-6380 were part of a group traded to General Electric for new units
in the late 1960's. Luckily, GE did not scrap these units, as was the fate of
1000's of others. GE resold a group of these F-7's, including Nos.6378 and 6380,
to the Salzberg Family who owned a number or shortline railroads. These units were
sent to the Wellsville, Addison and Galeton Railroad (WAG) in Upstate New York, where
they became WAG-2100 and WAG-2000, respectively. In August 1969, the locomotives were
transferred to the Louisiana and North West Railroad (L&NW) and were renumbered 46
and 45, respectively.
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Protect Yourself Online
- Requests to manage financial transactions from home
- Bad grammar and frequent misspellings
- Requests for detailed personal information (Drivers license, Bank account, Credit card information, Passwords, Social Security number)
- Compensation based on you withdrawing funds from a bank account
- Any job that requires a fee of any sort: application fee, processing fees, inventory charges – you should not pay to work
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- The FTC's Identity Theft Site
- The Consumer Sentinel Network
- Money Matters/Job Scams
Better Business Bureau: Use the Better Business Bureau to research charities and Business in your community or to help resolve issues with BBB registered businesses.
The Internet Crime Complaint Center: The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). IC3's mission is to serve as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer criminal complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena of cyber crime.
Looks Too Good To Be True.com: was built to educate you, the consumer, and help prevent you from becoming a victim of an Internet fraud scheme. The website was developed and is maintained by a joint federal law enforcement and industry task force. Funding for the site has been provided by the United States Postal Inspection Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
FakeChecks.org: This Web site was created by the National Consumers League (NCL), the nation's oldest nonprofit consumer organization, as a central source of information and advice about fake check scams. NCL created the site in collaboration with the Alliance for Consumer Fraud Awareness, a coalition of consumer and business organizations, government agencies, and companies that are committed to fighting fake check scams.
The Computer Crime Research Center: The Computer Crime Research Center (CCRC) is a non-profit, non-governmental and scientific research organization.
Fraud Guides: Fraud Guides exists to inform the public about scam artists and their tactics so that hopefully you can recognize a scam before you become the victim of one.
Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists: The organization provides resources for financial institutions and related businesses that help train, identify and locate practitioners who specialize in money laundering control policies, procedures & regulations.
Fraud Watch International: FraudWatch International combines anti-phishing education, monitoring and detection services, and preventative software solutions to consumers and corporate clients.
National White Collar Crime Center: The mission of NW3C is to provide a nationwide support system for agencies involved in the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of economic and high-tech crimes and to support and partner with other appropriate entities in addressing homeland security initiatives, as they relate to economic and high-tech crimes.
phishbucket.org: PhishBucket.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting job seekers from fraudulent job offers. Check suspicious offers and learn more about how to spot job phishing.
www.infragardawareness.com: A free self-directed (at your own pace) security awareness course that teaches you how easy it is to help make your workplace more secure and personal vital skills to protect yourself and your family from cybercrime and identity theft. When you have completed the course, you can also be amongst the first in the nation to earn your "Certificate In Information Security Awareness In the Workplace" - an invaluable addition to any resume that will be welcomed by employers.


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INDIANAPOLIS — Chuck Pagano put on his dancing shoes and savored every moment of Sunday's postgame celebration.
He took his customary linebacker stance on the sideline, hands on bended knees. He signaled touchdowns when the Colts scored, patted Deji Karim on the helmet after a 101-yard kickoff return for a game-changing touchdown, and gestured for penalty flags to be thrown.
And after Indianapolis beat AFC South champion Houston 28-16, Pagano even tossed aside the stodgy image of an NFL coach and began jumping around with players, assistant coaches and even team owner Jim Irsay like he was a kid again.
Why not? "There was a lot of high-fiving, a lot of dancing, a lot of hugging going on and a lot of celebrating," an emotional Pagano said. "There's a lot to celebrate right now."
It started with Pagano's return.
He took an indefinite leave Sept. 26 to begin the first of three rounds of chemotherapy for leukemia Sept. 26 and didn't make it back to the sideline until Sunday when the cancer was in complete remission.
When he left the field, he hugged everybody in sight — assistant coaches, Colts players, even Texans players and coaches — before moving the postgame party to the locker room, where Irsay presented him with a game ball and they did a do-si-do together.
"What a day, what a day," he said.
For everyone on the Colts.
"Guys really did not want to lose in his first game back and heading into the playoffs," rookie quarterback Andrew Luck said. "To get a win, I think means the world to him."
Luck, as usual, had a big hand in the victory. He was 14 of 28 for 191 yards with two more touchdowns and no interceptions.
He wasn't alone, though.
Karim swung the game with the kickoff return just seconds after the Texans took their only lead, and when Luck converted on third-and-23 with the 70-yard TD pass early in the fourth quarter, the crowd was in a frenzy.
The Colts (11-5) will play at Baltimore in the wild-card round next weekend. The slumping Texans (12-4) have lost three of their last four and won't know their AFC seeding until after Denver and New England finish later Sunday.
"We had a great opportunity the last two weeks, but we won't feel sorry for ourselves," Texans coach Gary Kubiak said after giving Pagano a hug and whispering in his ear after the game. "We'll focus on keeping our confidence up, even if we have to play next week."
Indy did everything it needed to Sunday.
The Colts prevented J.J. Watt from getting too close to Luck — or any closer to Michael Strahan's NFL sacks record (221/2). Watt finished with 201/2 .
"We didn't win, so I could care less about the record. It's about winning," Watt said.
Luck broke Peyton Manning's franchise record for completions by a rookie but fell 15 short of Sam Bradford's NFL mark. Luck also moved into third all-time among rookies with 22 TD passes.
And Indy completed the second greatest turnaround in league history — winning nine more games than it did in 2011.
"Man, this has been a great year, a storybook ending," Pro Bowl receiver Reggie Wayne said. "Let's keep it going. Hopefully we can continue to write this movie."
It didn't take long for the Colts to assert themselves in this emotional environment — or to turn the game when the Texans took their only lead. Shayne Graham made a 37-yard field goal with 5:22 left in the third quarter, a lead that lasted all of 12 seconds.
Karim fielded the ensuing kickoff a yard deep in the end zone, found a seam in the middle of the field and never slowed until he reached the opposite end zone to make it 21-16. Pagano patted him on the helmet after the longest kickoff return since the Colts moved to Indy in 1984.
Then, facing third-and-23 from the 30, Luck threw a perfect strike through a narrow opening, hitting Hilton in stride for a 70-yard TD to make it 28-16.
On a day the Texans mostly settled for field goals, that's all the Colts needed.
Luck masterfully led the Colts to a 14-6 halftime lead.
Houston made it 14-13 when Arian Foster broke through a hole for a 13-yard TD run and saluted Pagano by tapping the (hash)Chuckstrong sign hanging on the wall behind the end zone instead of doing his trademark bow. Foster ran 16 times for 96 yards.
Graham's 37-yard field goal gave Houston the lead with 5:22 to go in the third quarter, but Karim's long TD return set off a celebration that didn't end until after Pagano had done his dance.
"It's like a dream come true again," Pagano said. "It's the greatest feeling in the world to be down there."
Schaub finished 24 of 36 for 275 yards with two interceptions and no touchdowns. Foster ran 16 times for 96 yards.
Pagano returns as Indianapolis beats Texans 28-16
INDIANAPOLIS — Chuck Pagano put on his dancing shoes and savored every moment of Sunday's postgame celebration.


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Nothing warms the heart like a true underdog story - a club rising from the darkness to storm up the leagues and take their rightful place in the limelight.
And nothing seems more inevitable than the underdog's eventual plummet back to the (albeit relative) depths of football obscurity.
Here GMS lists the top five English clubs to come from apparently nowhere, only for their short stay to be over before it really begun.
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Ultimate fish cakes
Angela Nilsen went in search of perfection in her quest to pack flavour and texture into fish cakes
Nutrition and extra info
- Freeze, pref unfried - thaw for 4 hours
- Healthy
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal359
- fat12g
- saturates2g
- carbs36g
- sugars3g
- fibre2g
- protein29g
- salt0.7g
For the tartare-style sauce
- 125ml mayonnaise
- 1 rounded tbsp capers, roughly chopped (rinsed and drained if salted)
Capers are the small flower buds of the Capparis shrub, which grows in the Mediterranean. As…
- 1 rounded tsp creamed horseradish
Horseradishhors rad-ish
Horseradish root is larger than an ordinary radish, and has a hot, peppery flavour.
- 1 rounded tsp Dijon mustard
- 1 small shallot, very finely chopped
Related to the onion (as opposed to being a younger version of it), shallots grow in clusters at…
- 1 tsp flatleaf parsley, finely chopped
For the fish cakes
- 450g skinned Icelandic cod or haddock fillet, from a sustainable source
A popular mild-flavoured saltwater fish mainly found in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Cod…
- 2 bay leaves
- 150ml milk
One of the most widely used ingredients, milk is often referred to as a complete food. While cow…
- 350g Maris Piper potatoes
The world's favourite root vegetable, the potato comes in innumerable varieties. A member of…
- ½ tsp finely grated lemon zest
Oval in shape, with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile fruits…
- 1 tbsp flatleaf parsley, chopped
- 1 tbsp snipped chives
- 1 egg
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition, packed with protein and a…
- flour, for shaping
Flour is a powdery ingredient usually made from grinding wheat, maize, rye, barley or rice. As…
- 85g fresh white breadcrumbs, preferably a day or two old
- 3-4 tbsp vegetable or sunflower oil, for shallow frying
Sunflower oil
A variety of oils can be used for baking. Sunflower is the one we use most often at Good Food as…
- lemon wedges and watercress, to serve
With deep green leaves, and crisp, paler stems, watercress is related to mustard and is one of…
Mix all the sauce ingredients together. Set aside. Lay the fish and bay leaves in a frying pan. Pour over the milk and 150ml/¼ pint water. Cover, bring to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer for 4 mins. Take off the heat and let stand, covered, for 10 mins to gently finish cooking the fish.
Meanwhile, peel and chop the potatoes into even-sized chunks. Put them in a saucepan and just cover with boiling water. Add a pince of salt, bring back to the boil and simmer for 10 mins or until tender, but not broken up.
Lift the fish out of the milk with a slotted spoon and put on a plate to cool. Drain the potatoes in a colander and leave for a min or two. Tip them back into the hot pan on the lowest heat you can and let them dry out for 1 min, mashing them with a fork and stirring so they don't stick. You should have a light, dry fluffy mash. Take off the heat and beat in 1 rounded tbsp of the sauce, then the lemon zest, parsley and chives. Season well with salt and pepper. The potato should have a good flavour, so taste and adjust to suit.
Drain off liquid from the fish, grind some pepper over it, then flake it into big chunks into the pan of potatoes. Using your hands, gently lift the fish and potatoes together so they just mix (see pic 1). You'll only need a couple of turns, or the fish will break up too much. Put to one side and cool.
Beat the egg on a large plate and lightly flour a board. Spread the breadcrumbs on a baking sheet. Divide the fish cake mixture into four. On the floured board, and with floured hands, carefully shape into four cakes, about 2.5cm thick (pic 2). One by one, sit each cake in the egg, and brush over the top and sides so it is completely coated (pic 3). Sit the cakes on the crumbs, patting the crumbs on the sides and tops so they are lightly covered. Transfer to a plate, cover and chill for 30 mins (or up to a day ahead).
Heat the oil in a large frying pan. To test when ready, drop a piece of the dry breadcrumbs in - if it sizzles and quickly turns golden brown, it is ready to use. Fry the fish cakes over a medium heat for about 5 mins on each side or until crisp and golden. Serve with the rest of the sauce (squeeze in a little lemon zest to taste), lemon wedges for squeezing over and watercress.
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Not quite what you're looking for?Try some of our alternative fish suppers, Healthy fish & chips with tartare sauce, Cod with tomato & chorizo sauce or Pesto & olive-crusted fish.


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Spike Lee, and the Zombie jamboree.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Those Tea Party radicals, they sure did a number on things up in Toronto. Wait, it was the Tea Party radicals, right?
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Obama administration decision costs America up to 1000 manufacturing jobs. Hope and change!
The gulf coast may become permanently anti Democrat because of the lack of action of this administration in protecting it from the oil spill. If too many of these Cloward-Piven decisions keep happening, the midwest may also learn to loath the Democrats.
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A plausible military option for dealing with the mad mullahs in Iran.
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In 2007, did not the CIA tell us that Iran had abandoned it's effort to build a nuclear bomb? Oops, I guess they were wrong, and now have enough for two (2) nukes. One for Tel Aviv, and one for Washington DC. Every CIA employee even remotely responsible for the lie in 07 should be immediately fired and stripped of all benefits. It's political reports like this that will get one of our cities vaporized, and an example must be made.
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This watch is for sale at Amazon for 87,000 dollars. But the real payoff is the comments, which you can read at the link, for true comedy gold.
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A new declaration of independence.
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Department of Justice official resigns over the administration's racist decision not to prosecute the New Black Panther voter intimidation case.
Just imagine what dirt will come out once the Democrats no longer hold the reigns of power.
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
Turkish supporters of the Gaza flotilla fly the Nazi flag. It also appears that Mein Kampf is a best seller there.
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Harrumpf! The first thing Obama asked about when he got off the chopper in Canada for the G20 meeting was the golf courses. Unserious, unfocused and unprepared.
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Something for the guys on a Saturday. Ruger #1 in 9.3x74R, a classic African chambering. Just in case you run into an enraged water buffalo, you'll be ready.
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The article at the link provides the best description I have seen of why the government has no business trying to "save jobs."
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
The country of Belgium bids fair to fracture, hopefully without war. The reasons for the division are a lesson for all of us on the virtues of Capitalism and self reliance vs. Socialism.
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Get this - the oil spill and it's potential consequences if it comes ashore causes plans to be put in place to evacuate Tampa Bay!
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Man tinkers around, ends up building small fusion nuclear reactor.
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Government officials tell state authorities to stop building sand berms to stop the oil.
Simply unbelievable. It gets harder everyday to attribute these kinds of decisions to mere stupidity, and easier to believe in some sort of government malevolence.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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The family dog's "to do" list:
Run, bark, smell, flap ears, whine, pee, growl, pant, chase the cat, dig, eat something, sleep, shed, lick, chew, poo, eat poo, put on sh*t eating grin, jump, nip, track mud in house, wag, beg, howl, etc.
Who said dogs are lazy?
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Can we keep our republic without leaders who stand on principle, without judges who follow the constitution and precedent, and without a people who educate themselves about the issues of the day, and understand their duty as free people to make sure that government serves them, and not the other way around? The article at the link deals with the question well, although I am not sure our age is so debauched as we might think. A short study of history shows that earlier generations had their faults as well. It is probably a question of where the tipping point lies.
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Realizing that it can be several hours without seeing another vehicle, it's better to wait for someone to flag over for confirmation that this is the appropriate road. Halfway through a can of sardines and stale bread, I am suddenly aware of a presence at my side. Looking down to the left, I am startled to see a four year old girl staring up holding an aluminum pale and porcelain bowl. scanning the surrounding terrain reveals no sign of nomads or their Gers and it's impossible to determine from where she came.
"Sain ban noo," I say. Hello. Her smudgy face is frozen in an emotionless gaze upward at the Martian that someone in her family has sent her to assist. Because of a deep Buddhist belief in Karma, it's in the nature of the nomads to feed and care for strangers. This is a training mission.
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Don't trip and fall.
The Chand Baori step well in Rajastan India is 13 stories deep and was built in the 9th century. Unbelievable architecture equal to or exceeding anything being built in Europe at that time. All of it done to get a little water!
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1948 Buick Streamliner. Even today they could sell a pile of these. Like the Dodge Viper or Plymouth Prowler, every major brand should have a "concept car comes alive" vehicle that focuses on the "wow" rather than the practical. The publicity value alone would be worth it, but also for the sheer joy of making something like this actually happen. There would always be enough customers to pay a premium for the privilege of driving a limited edition piece of art. It seems the auto industry was far more vibrant decades ago than today.
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Friday, June 18, 2010
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If you like photography check out the excellent work on this blog. Really, really good, just keep scrolling for one pleasant surprise after another. And you can practice your Swedish......
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Leave it to Samuel to go to LA and find the most massive, tastiest hot dog in the state. This one is from Pink's, perhaps you have heard of it. And he ate it all.
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As is wise when attacked by a sow grizzly -- although never when attacked by a black bear -- Berkey played dead, and the bear retreated. She attacked again when he first tried to get up, but he resumed making like a dead bicyclist until he was sure the bears were out of the area. He then got up and rode to his job at the Alaska Native Medical Center.
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
Best political concession speech evah. Go Crimson Tide! And get away from my yard sign. H/t: all over the net, but mainly Ace.
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
Recently taken at the former Republican president's club. Notice the jellybeans next to Reagan's right elbow? And except for that guy on the far right, we've had some hella good presidents on our team.
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The Oil Drum is a first class resource for inside information about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This comment tries to make sense of the behavior of BP in it's attempts to plug the leak, and also sets out a worst case scenario for this disaster. Unfortunately, based on this analysis it appears that there is a significant chance of complete failure of the well itself, leading to the venting of the entire oil reservoir into the gulf. Sobering to say the least.
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Last week I took a half day off work and drove over Meyers, Luther Pass and Carson Pass. There was a surprising amount of snow for mid June, but it is naturally melting fast. Below you see Mounts Price, Agassiz and Pyramid, left to right.
Below is Silver Lake, and on the left Thunder Mountain with Thimble Peak to the right. At this elevation, most of the snow is gone.
Below is a zoom of the massive cave on the right side of Thunder Mountain. Maybe this summer I will get the time to hike around the end of the mountain and into this opening. I have never heard of anyone doing it, although it must have been visited frequently since it is not far off a trail and visible to anyone who goes to Silver Lake. If I make it I'll post on it.
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
As close to really flying as humans will ever come.
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World's best soccer commercial.
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Intelligent thoughts on the coming "summer of love" in the Middle East.
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Friday, June 11, 2010
The Obama administration orders Immigration to upgrade illegal alien detention centers to include:
Continental breakfasts
potted plants, wall hangings and brighter colors
classes in computers
celebrations for national and personal holidays
self service beverage bars
internet access
at least four hours a day of exercise in a natural setting
and much, much more!
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
Watch out Hamas, Abbas, Iran, Pakistan and BP, Obama's looking to kick some assssssss! He is very tough, very mean when he is angry. Look out!
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Obama and the Democrats vote to slit the throat of the United States economy.
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Sunday, June 6, 2010
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If you haven't protected yourself financially from the coming depression, better do it this week.
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The first link is a good story to memorialize what happened in Normandy so long ago. Yet, the very ideas of National Socialism which we fought against then are now ascendent in our media, in Europe, and of course in the Muslim world. Evil arises again. So must the same good that led us through the storm those many years ago.
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Saturday, June 5, 2010
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The fourteen year old graduates from eighth grade. Big ceremony. In my day, they just kicked us out the door and warned us never to come back. And the looks on their faces showed that they meant it. Nowadays, the whole family even got a meal out of the festivities. Boo - yah!
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
A visit is in order to the halls of Obamamania, to get a perspective on the current state of disillusionment over the O's performance. Click the link and don't miss the quotes from famous folk who lost their heads over The Man. Insanity.... or would that be O-sanity?
Also, check out the report from a hyper liberal about all the photos of himself O has put up in the White House. Sick.
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Recent Webinar Opportunities
WEBINAR SERIES: Maximizing Third Party Reimbursement through Enhanced Medical Documentation and Coding
HealthHIV's National Center for Healthcare Capacity Building recently hosted a webinar series focused on maximizing revenues. These webinars explain proper documentation in patient health care and identify and differentiate between evaluation and management codes to maximize third party clinical site reimbursement. The sequential series includes a desk-reference resource guide which is available here.
NACCHO's Becoming an In-Network Provider: The Health Department Perspective
The public health system is transforming due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the decline in federal and state discretionary funds. Public health departments have started to seek alternative sources of revenue to continue providing services in their community. Many health departments are exploring billing for clinical services provided and are trying to become a contracted in-network provider with health plans.
NACCHO hosted a webinar titled "Becoming an In-Network Provider: The Health Department Perspective" where speakers from Mississippi, New York, and North Dakota shared their contracting experiences. The recording from this webinar is available here and you can find the slides here. Answers to the Q and A section are available here.
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Weekend thieves decide to phone it in in Manchester
September 03. 2013 7:37PM
MANCHESTER — Six high-end smart phones fell into the hands of thieves over the long weekend, according to police who said most of the cell phones were swiped from the hands of unsuspecting owners.
Police said most of the thefts took place in the Elm Street area at night, when pedestrians are visiting bars and restaurants. In one case, the thief asked the person to use her phone and then took off.
Most victims were women or teenagers, and four thefts took place in the downtown area:
• Monday night at the corner of Amherst and Elm street, a man approached a woman and asked if she was alright. He grabbed her Samsung Galaxy phone and ran off.
• Early Monday morning, a woman at Elm Street and Lake Avenue had her iPhone 5 stolen by a thief who approached her from behind.
• Early Saturday morning, a man at Elm and Hanover streets had his iPhone 5 stolen by a stranger who approached him and asked to use his phone.
• Late Friday night, a man sitting at Veterans Park had his iPhone 4 stolen from a man who approached him from behind, grabbed the phone and ran off.
The other thefts involved teenage victims and took place on Friday afternoon away from downtown.
A 15-year-old boy had an iPhone 5 stolen from his hand as he rode his bike on Maple Street near the skate park.
A 16-year-old girl said her iPhone 5 was stolen as she rode a scooter near Hall and Summer streets.
In all but two cases, the victims described the thieves as teenagers. The teenaged boy who lost his phone on Maple Street couldn't give a description to police.
The victim at Veterans Park said the thief of his phone was a tall white man.
Anyone with information about the thefts is urged to contact Manchester police at 668-8711.


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Nuclear physicists study the fundamental building blocks of matter, from quarks and gluons (left) to individual protons (center) and atomic nuclei (right).
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Through research, nuclear physicists are leading us on a journey of discovery into the nucleus of the atom - the very heart of matter. The goal is a roadmap of matter that will help unlock the secrets of how the universe is put together.
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Train Conductor 2: USA Review
There's a saying that if something ain't broke, don't fix it. In our review of the original Train Conductor, we stated that Plus+ integration didn't quite work because there weren't endless levels. Train Conductor 2: USA has a new problem: It doesn't have online leaderboards, but every level is endless.
Before we delve into the game itself, we want to give a warning to anybody thinking of buying the game to play on the iPad. While the developers are saying this app is universal, it actually is not. On the iPad, it plays in a permanent pixel-double window and looks very blurry.
We aren't sure if this was an honest mistake or an attempt to cash-in, but for the moment hold off unless you plan on playing the game on an iPhone. Also, our testing found that the game is not optimized for the iPhone 4's Retina display.
If you never played the first version of the game, the idea is that you move numbered trains to their correct track by drawing in crossways for them. The level starts off easy, but gets progressively harder. You must also micromanage traffic by starting and stopping trains to avoid a crash. In daytime levels, putting a train through the wrong track results in the loss of one point.
Las Vegas and Nashville– horrifying!
Train Conductor 2: USA has five stations based in different states, each of which is unlocked once you've successfully guided a certain number of cumulative trains. The first three, Miami, Nashville, and New York, are similar to the maps found in the first Train Conductor. The twists to these include walls between tracks and faster trains. There's even a replica of the ghost level from the first game, where ghosts can't be stopped but can go through one another, and train cars must reach their destination or the game ends.
The other two levels, Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon, are the more original of the bunch. Grand Canyon's twist is that you must help trains cross the canyon. Most trains stop before plummeting to the canyon floor and will wait for you to draw them a path, but occasionally a 'dark train' will come by and refuse to stop.
Las Vegas is an entirely new kind of game. Instead of having a path-drawing element, this map is about sorting pink and green ghosts into their respective groups before they hit the soul destroyer near each track's center. If you fail to sort a ghost in time or sort a ghost into the wrong pile, the game ends.
Travel across the States without leaving your lounge chair.
If you feel comfortable with a level or want to speed up transitions between train waves, a fast-forward button is available. It would be nice if there were safe fast-forward like that found in Flight Control HD, but it isn't a reason to avoid this game.
We enjoyed the new levels, but Train Conductor 2 is missing the crucial factor to any high score game: online leaderboards. It doesn't make any sense that the developers would have decided not to implement Plus+ again, or another social gaming platform. They did implement Facebook connect, but this certainly does not replace true leaderboards.
In the end, the lack of online leaderboards and the faulty iPad version are what keep us from giving this version of Train Conductor a higher score. It has the potential to keep us occupied for a while, but after unlocking every level in under an hour, we saw no reason to keep playing.


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Iran — with Russia's help — is evidently trying to punish Turkey for its support for the pro-democracy movement in Syria.
When the Syrian uprising started in 2011, Iran and Turkey contemplated working together to contain the crisis — but it soon became clear that the two were pulling in opposite directions.
Tempted by neo-Ottoman dreams and under growing pressure from Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Arab states, Turkey began to back regime change in Syria.
Iran, facing internal divisions on how to react to the Arab Spring, at first couldn't find a coherent Syria policy. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seemed amenable to having Bashar al-Assad step aside in exchange for his Ba'ath Party sharing power in a transitional period.
But "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei took the Syrian dossier away from Ahmadinejad. He sent his own emissaries to Damascus to "stiffen Assad's backbone," in the words of one Tehran source. He then sent envoys to Moscow to coordinate policy with Russia — where Vladimir Putin was also determined to keep Assad in power.
The stage was set for a clash with Turkey, now intensifying in the context of a new struggle to determine the future of the Middle East.
On one side, most Arab states — led by Egypt and Saudi Arabia — are working for regime change in Syria. Britain and, to a lesser extent, France side with them.
The United States lacks a coherent stance. The State Department is promoting active support to topple Assad, but the White House is reluctant to get involved beyond token gestures and occasional "intelligence" support for the uprising.
Iran and Russia have adopted the preservation of Assad as a strategic goal. They are supported by part of the Iraqi administration, the Hezbollah-controlled Lebanese government and peripheral Arab states such as Sudan. Turkey finds itself at the center of this rivalry, if only because its longest border is with Syria.
The Iran-Russia tandem was initially wary of provoking a clash with the Turks, for fear it might lead to US involvement. But once they saw that Washington wouldn't get involved, at least not before the Nov. 6 election, they decided to teach Turkey a lesson.
Last week, the Tehran daily Kayhan, controlled by Khamenei, warned that "the fire in Syria will spread to Turkey."
The "lesson" has three facets.
1) Swamp Turkey with Syrian refugees. This is achieved partly by making it more difficult for Syrians to escape to Lebanon or Iraq.
In Lebanon, Hezbollah has sent fighters to the border to terrorize and even massacre Syrians fleeing the Assad death machine. In Iraq, the army has sealed the border to prevent Syrians from entering.
Ethnic Kurds and Turkmen are a sizeable chunk of the population along the Turko-Syrian border, with kith and kin on both sides facilitating passage. By Turkish estimates, over 200,000 Syrians have already fled to Turkey. This week, Ankara approved the building of new camps to receive half a million refugees.
2) Reactivate the PKK, the Kurdish Workers Party, an armed group that long fought for a Marxist state in southeastern Turkey.
In 2010, after 30 years of fighting that claimed 48,000 lives, the PKK was all but extinct militarily. But Tehran has now financed, armed and unleashed it against Turkey, which it often enters from bases in Iran.
Since February, the PKK has provoked 27 clashes, causing the death of over 800 people, a quarter of them Ankara's soldiers. The latest clash, on Sunday, claimed 43 lives, including 10 Turkish troops.
Meanwhile, Turkey has arrested two Iranian intelligence officers and an unknown number of Hezbollah militants on suspicion of espionage for PKK.
3) Economic pressure. Iran, the main source of oil and natural gas for Turkey, is scaling down supplies. It is also reducing transit trade through Turkey. Russia has meanwhile all but frozen economic cooperation with Turkey and is setting hurdles to Turkish trade with Central Asia.
A NATO member and a US ally since the 1940s, Turkey must not be left alone to fight the Irano-Russian tandem, a dark alliance out to stop the Arab Spring from liberating Syria.


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14 May, 2010
Wicked HP Vortech supercharged Camaro closes in on 1000rwhp
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Wicked HP has been tuning a Vortech supercharged Camaro and are closing in on the mind blowing 1000rwhp mark on pump gas! They have built the bottom end of the factory LS3 engine and installed a Vortech V-7 YSi-Trim supercharger with optional 50mm cog drive. Here are the full specs: the engine is a stock [...]